Dear Patrons

The battle system took a bit more time to integrate and set up than I anticipated. That, coupled with some personal issues (honestly, lately I've been dealing with depression due to a break up and handling it very, very badly XD ), means I didn't get much done yesterday or today. Fortunately I'm feeling much better than I have this entire week, but that has slowed up my development rate.

So what I would like to know is if you want 0.24 now (it includes the new battle system), or if you're willing to wait 2-3 days so that I can add new lewd events into the project.

The planned events center around Fira and Ryoko with the goal of adding 3-5 events total per character.

These are the current list of updates since 0.23:

4/20-26

# - Put together most of the battle system. It's gun based, shoot your foes to oblivion and avoid being defeated yourself.

# - Added sound effects and damage numbers to battle.

# - Tweaked a few more of the battle mechanics. Firing Bullets drains your stamina. This gives the gameplay more of a stamina management aspect.

# - Damage dealt in evasion switch is lowered to 70%. Damage dealt during defense mode is lowered to 50%. Nerfed offense mode damage to +25% instead of +50%.

# - Nerfed the amount of stamina (from 5x fatigue to 3 x per)

# - 0 stamina results in less damage dealt during battles. (20% les)

# - Firing rates and reloading times now come into play during combat.

 4/27-29

# - New enemies. This will be expanded upon later.

# - Added stamina regeneration to the combat.

# - Placed in the new battle system and worked out a few kinks.

# - Fixed an issue where potions would not get consumed properly.

# - Made the enemies a bit harder to defeat in the Cavern and Beach stages.

# - Updated status screen so that you can see your current level cap as well as current level.(in red).

# - Further tweaked some elements of battle.

# - Added new enemies in the other stages.

# - You now gain small amounts of experience towards your training level by defeating enemies.

# - You now gain small amounts of alchemy experience by recycling items.

4/30

# - Extended the story further.

So essentially if I release now you'd just be able to check out the new battle system and a tiny bit more of the main story (up to creating the Tower Core item).

While if you wait, you'd get more events to discover, more lewd encounters and more QOL fixes and updates.